News, stories and writing from Irish novelist and travel writer Denyse Woods.https://denysewoods.ie/en-IEhttps://denysewoods.ie/news/to-website-or-not-to-website/https://denysewoods.ie/news/to-website-or-not-to-website/Years back, soon after I signed up with Penguin Ireland with The Catalpa Tree, my editor and publicist asked if I had a website. No, I said, I did not, and I wasn’t planning on getting one. They were surprised – every author, by then, had a website, because websites made it easier for readers…Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTDenyse Woodshttps://denysewoods.ie/news/me-on-me/https://denysewoods.ie/news/me-on-me/So, it was something of a moving-around type of situation when I was growing up. My father was a diplomat, but I prefer to say that both my parents were diplomats, since the diplomatic spouse works extremely hard also.Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTDenyse Woodshttps://denysewoods.ie/news/wallpaper/https://denysewoods.ie/news/wallpaper/The letters kept coming. She wrote of Bormio, of winter-white hills and Alpine ridges hanging from the skies, of streets busy with get-there skiers and lithe ski instructors in sausage-skin suits. She described the brittle night air so well that you could smell it off the crinkly stationery. Airmail Light. A traditionalist, then, sending missives…Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTDenyse Woods